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5 questions in IaC Modules & Drift.

  1. IaC Modules & Drift intermediate

    An organisation's infrastructure code has become a sprawl of copied configurations. What module strategy works, and how is drift handled?

    2 min answer iacmodulesdriftreuse
  2. IaC Modules & Drift advanced

    One Terraform state file holds 4,000 resources across networking, databases, Kubernetes and DNS for production. A plan takes 14 minutes, every change risks unrelated resources, and four teams contend for the lock. You must split it into per-domain states without destroying anything. What is the sequence?

    4 min answer terraformstatemigrationblast-radius
  3. IaC Modules & Drift beginner

    You run `terraform plan` on a production workspace where nothing has been committed for three weeks. The plan proposes 23 changes. Nobody has touched the console. Why does this happen, and what should you do about each kind?

    3 min answer driftterraformprovidersdefaults
  4. IaC Modules & Drift intermediate

    Your infrastructure drift detection fires 200 alerts a day. The team has muted it. How do you make it useful again?

    2 min answer iacdriftalerting
  5. IaC Modules & Drift intermediate Multiple choice

    Your manifests are in Git with `spec.replicas: 6` and the reconciler syncs automatically with self-heal enabled. A platform engineer adds a HorizontalPodAutoscaler for the same Deployment with min 6 and max 40. Traffic doubles at 09:00. What happens over the next ten minutes?

    3 min answer gitopsdriftfield-ownershipserver-side-apply